One of the biggest problems we face today on the Internet are the scams that exist, and it is increasingly common that even a reliable seller ends up having fake products in stock due to the great similarity they have with the real ones, something real. this is extremely worrying. This time, one of the biggest problems that can be found in this aspect is related to the Ryzen 7 7800X3Dsince there are models that can be fakeand which are indistinguishable from the real thing unless you open the box and check the chip.
Online commerce has been a great advantage for many users and businesses, mainly because it allows you to buy any product from anywhere in the world without having to do more than click a button. But it also has its negative points, namely that scams and counterfeits are much more complicated to recognize on the Internet, which means that there are more and more of them than we can find.
They may look real, but there are fake Ryzen 7 7800X3D processors that cost the same
There are a large number of scams that we can find on the Internet, the most common usually involve products created with poor quality materials but that are sold at a higher price than they should, that is, counterfeits, something that has been happening for a long time since the creation of commerce in general. And now we have the disadvantage, thanks to online sales, which leaves us completely unprotected when buying a product that is not what we expected, being one of the last where we have been able to see fake chips that aim to deceive users into believing which ones are really AMD processors.
A user bought a processor through a fairly popular sales platform in Asia, although unfortunately the chip he bought was not the one he expected, because when he tried to start the computer it simply did not work and the story got even worse when he learned that the fake chip had the same price as the original, that is, more than $ 300. In this case, to check what this fake chip looks like, YouTuber Der8auer bought the fake chip at the original price from the user who had encountered this error, to carry out tests and see how it was different from the normal one.
At first it is almost impossible to notice the difference with the naked eye, and the chip itself is a perfect replica, although it has some flaws that Der8auer did not take long to find, such as the fact that the PCB is thinner and measures 0.964 mm compared to 1.308 mm of the original. In addition, the IHS itself has a reduced thickness in each of the assembly points, that is, in the eight arms that allow it to be fixed to the chip, while the capacitors are placed in the same arrangement as the original chip, but do not. incorporate the protective layer of normal.
It was when disassembling the IHS that he found the problem, and it was actually a PCB that included the serial heat sink and nothing else, since as such it did not incorporate any chip, which obviously made it not work. However, the youtuber himself pointed out that it is a real shame that the product is fake, since the shape that the IHS itself had with the milling that it incorporated would offer better cooling in the real chip.
